Patriarch Filaret heads the Kiev Patriarchate, a branch of the Orthodox Church that broke away from Moscow in 1992 after the fall of the Soviet Union and the declaration of an independent Ukraine.
His church, a rival of the Moscow Patriarchate which is closely linked to Putin, strongly supports Ukrainian nationhood and the Kiev government's struggle to defeat pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
"With great regret I must now say publicly that among the rulers of this world ... there has appeared a new Cain, not by his name but by his deeds," Patriarch Filaret said, invoking the Biblical character who killed his brother Abel.
Comment: Paramoralisms abound! Last time we checked, it was Kiev who invaded east Ukraine and started killing their brothers and sisters there.
"Like the first fratricide of history Cain, these deeds show that the afore-mentioned ruler has fallen under the action of Satan," he said in the statement, published on the patriarchate's website in Ukrainian, Russian and English.
Comment: Hold the presses!! As an access reporter, Dilanian was a more than willing enabler of official spin and lies, including those he co-created. Who knows, for example, how many lives might have been saved from drone attacks had the facts and objections to drone strikes been legitimately reported and truthfully investigated. Shame on the Los Angeles Times for colluding with the CIA by not enforcing your journalist code of conduct, for not doing due diligence on your reporters, for passing on disinformation that taints the efficacy of your own publication and egregiously violates the public trust.
That said, MSM is its own can of inbred worms. Dilanian is despicable, but he is also a sticker-face for a corporate media in bed with the government, un-beholding to the public it dis-serves. "The need by journalists for access to these power centres is one of the key components of this filtering system. If you are not prepared to be chummy with the CIA, you won't last long as an intelligence reporter." -Jonathan Cook
Associated Press...it's your move. And we're watching!
See also: CIA emails expose access journalist at work